If I were to build a car I could do the design in solidworks, have a prototype machined locally. But if I want it to sell well I'd have to have an attractive price point. I couldn't do that in the U.S. Unless Obama were to subsidize my production costs in order to create new jobs. But that would only make the U.S. Debt even worse, causing inflation making the average buyer have to pay more because of the depreciated American dollar.

Kyosho prides themselves on the fact they are solely made in Japan. I read an article with an engineer who said he just hops on his bike to go check out production of various parts at different plants.

AKA (which translates into "Red" in Japanese) was originally a spin off brand by Kyosho started by Gil Losi Jr, Mark Pavidis and Joel Johnson (all were employed with Kyosho). They bought the company from Kyosho so now it is a separate entity.

Guys you can check also the bar codes(three first digits) to see were the product manufactured ..
Also Proline and some AKA make the foams at China...
Also Xray have a lot of same parts with Intech Br-5(taiwan) a shop here which deal with Intech and xray , when he is out of stock for the intech he use XRAY parts.... Dogbones XRAY-HUDY from the 808 and from Intech BR-5 are like a ''drop of water'' the same just with different colors ..
I think a china/taiwan factory makes them all!
Same with lipo batteries ... There are only 3 factories!!! and all are china...